LysmachiaMoon's blog: It goes up. It goes down

Yesterday, Tuesday, was so mild it was impossible to stay indoors. I played hooky and spent the whole day out in the garden. I finished edging the beds below the Grape Arbor, then I removed and replaced the gravel in the grape arbor floor--a big job...I had used large round pebbles but decided to replace them with pea gravel. There was a lot of organic material mixed into the pebbles--theyve been there for many years now--so I had to scoop them out by handfuls, toss them into a sifter, sift out the debris, then replace the big pebbles with pea gravel. This was one of those jobs that was absolutely not on my to do lists or even on my radar...I just happened to look at the grape arbor floor and decide this had to be done. I'm glad I did it, the floor looks much nicer. The finishing touch will be if I can locate/buy that "glue" stuff that you spray on pea gravel to solidify it into a solid sheet. I think it's called "Gravel-lock" or something like.
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Today, Wednesday, the temperature plummeted. From around 50F at 7:30 a.m. to 30F by 11 a.m. The wind is incredible. I dare not go down into the woodland for fear of being brained by falling branches. It is so miserably cold and windy (despite partial sunshine) that I'm not even tempted to venture out. Instead, I seeded all my tomatoes...Quite a selection this year. Pineapple (heirloom), Hollow Stuffer (heirloom), Indigo Blue Berry, Roma, Big Boy, and Cherry Belle.

The brassicas I seeded a few weeks ago are up and doing well; the Danish Ballhead never did germinate; in the trash those seeds go. I got very sporadic germination from the Br. Sprouts, only about 6 seeds sprouted. But that's plenty for the garden. I will toss those seeds too though...

The very first of my "snow crocus" are starting to bloom all over the property. I am so glad I invested in hundreds and hundreds of those bulbs many years ago. Over the past 20 years, they've multiplied and spread around and I've added to their numbers and now it is just such a welcome and lovely surprise to find them lifting their pretty little goblets to the sun even in bleak weather.

Geese are going over...the other day I saw 3 enormous skeins of Canada geese going north from the Chesapeake Bay. Each flock had at least 30-50 birds so quite a number. I'm just on the westernmost edge of the Great Atlantic Flyway so I get to see a fraction of the migrating birds. It's always such an exciting sight... I love to be working quietly at the dining room table and hear that far off siren honking as they approach. I always run out to watch them pass over and wish them godspeed.

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